Sunday, June 29, 2008

"Langub" means: Cave... Is it?

Hello my dear bloggers! I know it's been a while since i havent updated this, worry not 'coz im back! in fresh flesh and blood. And guess what? I was away for a while riding, hiking, trotting, posing, doing some lectures and climbing ! i have been busy... busy with everything life has to offer!

You see our M.A. History class batch went over to Argao municipality, particularly Langub Barangay to do some cultural mapping as part of our term paper for this semester. So very early on the sunday morning of September 17, we met @ Mc Do and off we went to Barangay Langub. We were expecting to see the langub (cave), which we actually tried to locate and saw a small dent down the road's tail end. It was deep enough that we didnt go down any further for fear of mishaps or something like it. We were told nobody really knew of any cave but made statements of that depression down under. So, we pursued our original task and did more.

Here is more of our story: Let me tell about the birds and the bees and ... ooppps! sorry, got carried away for a while there.
I said i was riding 'coz i rode a horse! Yep! horsy horsy horsy. We found him slowly trotting down the slipway below the bridge of Langub, and thought we could go for a ride or two! It was so fun, i didnt know i was already up his back! It felt wierd enough feeling his body warmth under my thighs... wooooooo! he he!
And then, we (my M.A. friends) went over a little farther that's why i said i was walking! I can't imagine we walked a little over two kilometers! or was it three?
We parked our vehicle beside the first corner on the way to the Barangay hall 'coz the road seemed to slide down some 45 degrees and winding! I'm sure it was a long and winding road... like the song. After some hiking and riding, our legs got carried away too soon that we started to do the trot...? Yeah, right. I was doing the trot. So?
Then after going down the lowest point there, we climbed up all the way to where we all started walking! Oh boy! Was that fun! Our knees kept telling us: "enough is enough". Well, we did stop for a pose or two and went for some snapshots.
We joined in the regular session of the barangay and got to met with the captain complete with the other barangay officials. We got to meet a few locals and became our new acquaintances including children. They were sweet and kind and smiling as well. It felt good knowing we are on safe hands considering we were on a place quite strange to us all.
And then, the best of it all... the River!. Oh yeah! Finally, we stepped on the right spot! We have been going around almost in cirlces to find the water source and EUREKA! We've found what we were looking for. It was imposing, grand, thrilling, exciting! We got to sift some fossils beneath its cool clear water. And i found my share of archaeological artifacts. The river ran across the barangay, cutting the Langub landforms like scissors. A few poses here and there made it feel good!
With the cow, a horse, a few carabaos, a forest of coconut trees, old roads, very old vintage trees, a few rocks, new acquaintances, a very old bridge, a river and lots of smiles... ahhh, we couldn't ask for anything more!

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